Russian consumer watchdog suspends Ukrainian salt imports

Russia is immediately banning the import of table salt from a Ukrainian company because of impurities in the product. Consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor says salt from Ukraine’s Artemsol is not up to standard.

It “does not comply
with the requirements on the contents of impurities, including
iodine and organoleptic properties,” Russia’s Federal
Service for Supervision of Consumer Protections and Welfare said
in a statement.

Rospotrebnadzor discovered the impurities in the table salt in
November last year, and began tougher checks at the border and in
retailers, RIA Novosti reports.